turning to words has run out. this time for us to see if persecution. if persecution it will people. really amazon takes the u.n. general assembly by storm manning justice for himself the wiki leaks staffers and bradley manning what's next for the wiki leaks founder will sit down with his folks person and just a minute. aren't going to let me in the mix

first you know those anti jihad as we told you about earlier this week the ones popping up on new york subways turns out those out of work well received by the public that had we'll tell you how some new yorkers are trying to cover up what they consider to be. plus g.i. joe meet the next generation of american troops hard wired to defend u.s. interests coming up we'll tell you how the defense department is teaming up with neuroscientist to create the perfect soldier. it's thursday september twenty seventh four pm here in washington d.c. i'm melissa long you're watching our team. we begin today with wiki leaks founder co-founder julian assad shaken things up at the united nations general assembly speaking via video leg from the ecuadorian embassy in london a songe addressed the assembly last night. we agreed that we would

insert determination and not merely american or western values but universal values and we agree with the president when he says that we must speak honestly if we are serious about these ideals it is time for president obama to do the right thing and join the forces of change. not in five words but in find the wasn't covered a lot of ground condemning the treatment of accused whistleblower bradley manning to calling out president obama for cracking down on wiki leaks while hailing free speech in the middle east and the arab spring this is information has just been released as suggest the u.s. has declared a silent enemy of the state assad has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for one hundred days now as the u.k. threatens to arrest him the moment he sets foot outside of the building today the foreign ministers of aqua door and the u.k. met in hopes of finding a resolution to the diplomatic standoff for more on these latest developments with

the league spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson joins us now from new york chris step thank you so much for joining us so these declassified documents they were obtained there a freedom of information act request suggest the u.s. has declared a songe an enemy of the state what are the implications of this and what does this mean for assad. will it is very serious that the u.s. military has made this. clear and basically we can leave and to be this comes up in the resignation into a possible corp of servicewoman in the u.s. military working in the u.k. . he was. under suspicion of having. having and cooperate with we can lease and it was to find communicating with the enemy no of course it has a very serious implication if if we can indeed be in the categorized the enemy we

all know what that means basically i saw i mean does that mean that he's essentially now in the same category as the taliban or a member of al qaeda that would seem to be the implication of that is the oh it's interpreted by the legal team of julius jones wow i want to play a clip now julian assad himself addressing the u.n. g.a. last night. the u.s. administration is in trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and national regime discussions the regime way any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death life imprisonment or it's been hours and journalists from the media organization with of. all the areas assigned has expressed fear that he could face the death penalty if he indeed does get extradited to the united states but at this point the u.s.

has not issued any criminal charges so why does a songe fear this worst case scenario well not officially there are indications that a sealed secret indictment might already be in place we're not sure that those would be documents. indicating that. when you look at the the scope of the persecution against the we can leaks the forty two thousand documents that have been gathered in the attempt to find ways to end julian and possibly all those associated with we can do so if you look at the grand jury the proceedings in this last year in secrecy in virginia trying to find ways and means to to prosecute julian our sons you see there is a real danger here and we see from evidence that have been leaked and that there are references when people have been subpoenaed to the grand jury to the espionage act of nineteen seventeen which carries the death penalty so it's

a real and serious threat and as you look to our with the way things have played out for accused of a sample our bradley manning as i guess our president of what could happen to have if he were extradited to the u.s. . well look at the bradley manning is absolutely horrible i mean he was kept support more than eight months under current conditions with the work conditions of torture as categorized by the special report of torture one mentors of the u.n. so of that could be expected if he is actually did it to the united states now i do want to take a moment now to listen to some more remarks made by julian assange last night where he refers to president obama and his speech before the u.n. i'm reminded of the phrase the audacity of hope. you can say that the president of the united states is not or day shifts was it not audacity for the united states

government to take credit for the last two years of progress. or they just for him to say on tuesday the united states supported the forces of change in the arab spring to new zealand history did not begin in december two thousand and ten and muhammad did not set himself on fire so barack obama could be reelected. all right so we just heard a sonder pointing to what he sees as president obama being hypocritical when he sees when he advocates free speech in the middle east why does he think the president is using the arab spring for political gain well it is obvious he is trying to use it for political gain because he's a politician and is a hypocrite because if you look at how the u.s. was supporting the dictators that were overthrown ben ali regime in tunisia and mubarak going to egypt they will had full support of the us government up until

the last moment when it was obvious that they would be pushed aside by the popular uprising in this region and they even tried to have a hand in the who would succeed mubarak in egypt and their. prime candidate was that was the one who had been overseeing the torture chambers and their mubarak regime so of course it's hypocrisy to try to claim some credit and support for the awakening and want to get to a meeting an important meeting that took place today between the foreign secretary william hague and his ecuadorian counterpart was there any progress made in this diplomatic stalemate that has been in suing for the past one hundred days. according to my information there was nothing definite they came out of his notion lucian as yet but i could dorian so working very hard in the coming up with ideas and keeping the dialogue open and the doing a fantastic job so i'm very hopeful that in the end there will be

a solution and and julian sands will be allowed safe passage of the procedure in london to work with them but there hasn't been any measurable progress made in terms of reaching a solution not to my knowledge but as long as people are talking and long as the u.k. government is not threatening to storm the embassy and i could arise they did in the. few weeks ago that could be called progress ok here we are assigned has been holed up for one hundred days now surely that is taking some kind of a toll on him how would you describe it as sondra right now well many met him in person in london a few days ago and he's in good spirits and he's holding out pretty well he's been taking care of them is very busy of course working and keeping a strict schedule but of course it takes its toll to be locked inside for all this time but he is strong man and in terms and he can hold out for

a long time now would you say his remaining hopeful i mean how does he see this playing out what options is he looking at well i think he is hopeful that there will be a solution on this. i think as year is opened that is what. we all share and we hope that justice will prevail and that's what keeps a strong and keeps us going all right kristen really appreciate you coming on the show that was wiki leaks spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson. posters plastered throughout new york city subway stations are stirring a firestorm of controversy here they are as you can see they read in any war between the civilized man and the savage support the civilized man support israel to feed jihad the critics see these ads as anti muslim and racist and as you can see they've made this known by defacing some of the ads on egypt an american writer mona eltahawy as among those outraged by the posters here she is in

a confrontation with another woman as she attempts to spray paint over the ads. would you like something. that i laid. out for you. a moment later alcohol he was arrested and charged with graffiti and criminal mischief the metropolitan transport authority originally refused to display the posters but a judge ruled that banning them would have violate the first amendment to talk more about this i'm joined now by ayman al siad co-founder existence is resistance welcome to the show there are men. so how is your group responding to these ads and we've we've been supporting all the efforts of the different organizations and individuals who have been speaking out against the odds we start a page on facebook not in our names not on our trains trying to bring awareness about these races as well as we because many people are called three one one and

the m.t.a. to file complaints about these ads that their speech shouldn't be in our new york subways ok now these ads were put out by a woman by the name of pamela geller she is the leader of this group of american freedom defense initiative and she is standing behind these ads she says she's saying that this is her right to free speech what do you think about that. i think that she's very hypocritical that she's using free speech selectively only when to benefits her she doesn't believe in free speech she doesn't believe in other people's free speech and freedom of religion freedom to worship and their right to practice for example the mosque in downtown manhattan and you try to stop that even though it was constitutional it was legal what about other people's freedom of speech and freedom of religion and right to worship i believe that she's being very selective with the she's hiding behind the issue of freedom of speech just to promote her hate speech i mean it's i do you think that she should not have been allowed to post these ads no i'm not going to say she should have been allowed to

post these ads i believe in free speech however we have a right to speak out against these ads and promote that to promote the palestinian struggle which is what we're trying to promote these are trying to say that if you don't support if you don't support israel you're a savage it's labeling everybody who was critical of the occupation of the blockade on gaza of white phosphorus of cluster bombs falling on lebanon as a savage just because you disagree with that so she has a right to put them up but we have a right to speak out against it now that is do say stop jihad not stop. so do you think that that there is a difference there. i mean she's she's she's clearly and i mean she said in an ad itself decided to stop jihad it says support if you don't support israel you are a savage so she's trying to call muslim americans are americans palestinians just people who just don't support what's going on as savages so her message isn't strictly stop jihad and that word is it has a lot of different interpretation

a different meaning to different people it doesn't automatically mean terrorism violence that she's the what she's portraying it as being a lot of people jihad means we can up in the morning go into work taking care of your family reason your kids working hard to a lot of people that's. and she did say that i mean this word is a very loaded word a very controversial word to use the word savage but she says that when she i've seen another interview she said that this word is more referring to those that are religious fundamentalists do you think that are her using it and that context is except of all or do you think that it was just a poor choice of words all together i mean she could be critical of religious fanaticism but it seems like she's only targeting one group and it seems to be muslims and muslim americans and. she's trying to say that it's only for religious fanatics and why did you write so if you don't support israel then you're a savage automatically that's that's not narrowing it down that's targeting

everybody who has an opinion different than hers and we're trying to say that we wanted to be known as the palestinians who are facing occupation they're the ones who are suffering not israel and not israelis it is the palestinian people who are dealing with it every day struggles the blockade on gaza points restrictions and organ organization existence is essential to bring awareness about this occupation we try to bring young people from new york from chicago to go down there before with the young people in a refugee camps many people have gone down there and seen it with their own eyes what's happening to the palestinian people so is this is just is just me to instigate hatred racism and it's going to cause hate crimes it's a very dangerous as. she may have a right to put it up but it's very dangerous and it's going to promote killings like the what we saw at the sikh community they're not even muslim but you portray them as muslims and they start shooting these people up it's very unfortunate we have a person like family go hiding behind freedom of speech to promote hate crimes and violence against muslim and sikh americans and people of different backgrounds and

this this can't these controversial posters prompts question i mean where do you draw the line between free speech and hate speech where do you think this line is. like i said she may have a right to post them but we have a right to speak out against it and to say that it's hate speech and to say why it's hate speech you know she's been she's been out there defaming different people she's a defaming when we was just arrested recently for spray painting one of the ads she's been defaming one of our co-founders nancy monsoor of existence is resistance as well she's been calling her a terrorist of violence and she's been calling our organization nihilistic annihilation is you know claiming a calling the. muslim brotherhood supporters hamas and all the stuff so she's she's she's she's very good at defaming and generalizing on a whole group of people and making stuff up honestly ok and i do want to point out we are looking at images of the egyptian activists and. journalists being arrested by police while she's trying to spray paint over those words what is your reaction

to that her getting arrested for trying to cover up these controversial posters i mean you know i mean i salute what she did she has a right to speak out as an individual to do what she did i know she's getting criticism from some people who don't believe that we should that she should have spray painted it or the feast but that's her right and i supported to do that and it's unfortunate someone like her journalist she's she's got arrested she's a secular person she's well known she's been accused on pamela geller blog and twitter that she's a muslim brotherhood that she's hamas and she's islamic extremist terrorism but you know we support mona if she was released you know we'll try to support our court day and it's ironic that here in new york someone like mona gets arrested but then you know since the united nations you have someone like benjamin netanyahu a war criminal speaking to all these people and nothing happens to him somebody like him should be arrested not somebody like. right here in d.c. these posters that they have not gone up officials have decided that especially in the wake of some recent events throughout the world that right now is not

a good time to put a controversial posters like these do you think that was a good decision. like i said i support free speech you know i'm not against a decision that doesn't go up it's not a bad idea either she has a right to put them up but if they don't go up for whatever reasons whether it's law whether it's rejected that i'm not against that as well you know we're trying to we're going to do our own counter as that's promoting nonviolence as promoting islam in the positive light is promoting the palestinian struggle so will be will be will be resisting with our own ads you'll see in new york city subways very soon existence is resistance is working on that project and we want to put our own ads and we're going to see if i'm a speech is acceptable when it's from our perspective you know she says it's freedom of speech or supports freedom of speech but when it's when it with there was i believe that it was something anti-semitic there a lot more people we speaking out against it and want to be hiding behind freedom of speech but because it's against muslims is against palestinians is against arabs it's tolerated it's acceptable and we don't want racism against muslim and arab

americans to be normalized aren't accepted and that's what she's doing with this ok we'll see how much to tolerate free speech when we want when we say free palestine and israeli occupation. for crimes will certainly cover that when and when those posters do go up some say that when you see free speech that it makes you angry or that you don't agree with them that's controversial it shows that free speech is indeed alive and well maybe this is an example of that but really appreciate you coming on the show that was a co-founder existence as a resistance. we have an update tonight on a story we've been following for months the university of california davis has reached a financial agreement with the protesters who are pepper sprayed during a campus protest last november you probably remember this video. thank. you thank you. officer john pike's actions caused an uproar nationwide images of the police

lieutenant spraying orange proper spray in the faces of nonviolent protesters became a rallying point for the occupy wall street movement last week the yolo county district attorney's office in california said in a statement that there was insufficient evidence to prove the use of force was illegal so he's not going to be charged in this case the university of california governing board last week reached a proposed settlement the twenty one current and former students who sued after being hit with pepper spray the terms of the settlement have now been released each of the twenty one people you see there who are pepper sprayed will get thirty thousand dollars the settlement also calls for the u.c. davis chancellor to read a formal apology to each of the students and alumni who were pepper sprayed and erast did. well switching gears now we talk a lot about the future of warfare playing out in cyberspace but what if military conflict will be more of a war of the mayans well new brain sciences could make this possible an agency of the department of defense is researching ways to enhance military tactics by

enhancing the mind the agency is darpa or the defense advanced research projects agency by making soldiers more alert to drugging the enemy altering the mind could change the battlefield as we know it details about what exactly darpa is working on as detailed in the book you see there mind wars brain science of the military in the twenty first century the author jonathan martin anna has been following darpa's actions and joins us now to reveal what he's found out where and i was also a professor at the university of pennsylvania right now thanks for joining us on the show today and. so we just saw your book cover there and when you talk about the war of the mayans what exactly are you are you referred to you know. no the most important link in warfare has always been the brain of the soldier in the ancient world you really couldn't do much to improve a war fighter except to give a brilliant speech if you were a commander in the one nine hundred century the prussian army tried cocaine in the

twentieth century nicotine and caffeine and sometimes if you have to walk over the hill into certain death or near certain death you drink a lot of alcohol but we are getting a little more familiar with how the brain actually works now for example neuroscience of being to understand what parts of the brain react most to stressful conditions and if you can understand that then maybe you can start to understand the neural pathways that can be managed with drugs or or with sophisticated external electrical or magnetic systems that can do it as the scientists say down regulate these stress reactions so that's one that's one option as it looks like these that you listed methods that have been used in the past that these methods are getting much more sophisticated we're looking at owning a lot more about the brain now partly because we have ways of looking inside the brain these amazing images of people who are looking at something or experiencing something in different parts of the brain are activated obviously we're going to go a lot more about genetics in the way our genes control the way our brains are laid

out even before birth and the way they change over time so you know we're getting to a point now where we're really understanding the mechanisms of the brain that were not available to previous generations now with this new information i mean how can we use this to enhance our soldiers you know it turns out to be a lot harder than the science fiction writers have told us for a long time we're not going to be seeing robots soldiers per se anytime soon we're not going to be even in terms of national security we're not going to be seeing mind reading machines at the airport but there are more subtle things for example the biggest problem that i have in combat is to staying awake and alert that turns out to be really hard to manage with anything better than coffee. but there are things that are now available in the marketplace that are called the anti sleep pill and that might turn out to be an enhanced or for better than spin amphetamines

which pilots have been using for a while better than and fed a means or a compliment to speed so that might help. the other idea is or might one of the many other ideas as you might be able to use little magnetic pulses which are already being used to help people learn things faster. or to help you make you more attentive so there are some more subtle ways than making a robotic soldier that are really i think on the horizon i also want to get to so in addition to enhancing our own soldiers i know you talk in your box about being able to alter the minds of our enemies how can we do that you know the best way to do that is to make them think they're going to lose there's nothing like old fashioned propaganda to do that that's been around for a long time. there have been at ideas as you know about putting an agenda like l.s.d. in the water supply or maybe getting them in some kind of aerosol none of that really works very well so i think compromising the brains of other soldiers is going to be pretty much an old fashioned use of uses of propaganda and this

information in the in the near future but in the in the long run if people can figure out ways to use aerosols that won't be scattered by the weather we won't be made ineffective by the sunlight you know those things are of some interest i think i did some reading and possibly using oxytocin anime is. is that a possibility so you know oxytocin is something that probably you and i are making in our brains right now it kind of happens when we're having a nice conversation went out with friends we're on a date when we're on a date when you're having a baby i've had that experience by my wife has and we make oxytocin it stimulates the lockdown reflex it's a social trust kind of a kind of a neuro hormone. it does a lot of things but one of things it does is it makes us come to with other people and want to engage with other people so some people have speculated that if you gave somebody oxytocin in an interrogation situation that you might make whoever

walks into the room the good cop that you might be a little more loose and more willing to talk but it's an interesting idea it would it would be illegal under the chemical weapons treaty it would be illegal under international law it would be illegal to use that to be a chemical weapon so you really couldn't do that but it's something that people have speculated about interesting and i know that you were able to learn a lot about this there at darpa. how are you able to learn so much about it and to kind of get the inside scoop and it is darpa open to sharing the scientific research you know it's really interesting the old american radical journalist stone used to say people ask me how i can get this information i just read the newspaper i just keep track of things it's amazing how much is really available in open source and that's all i needed to use to kind of connect the dots and to see where not only the u.s. but other military establishments are growing with respect to the brand really interesting jonathan thank you so much for coming into the studio today that was an event in what i know author of

a mind wars brain science in the military in the twenty first century and professor at the university of pennsylvania. well the capital account is up next on our t.v. let's check in with lauren lister to see what is and today's agenda lauren really working on liz i'll get to that but first oxytocin you know there's another name for it's known as the cuddle hormone yeah that's right because when he named all those other things it also you also said when you got all. good after a certain interaction anyway dr lloyd i don't know i'm in new york maybe i'm still little more off the cuff but needless to say we have various serious issues to tackle so high frequency trading we've seen it wreaked havoc on markets in the u.s. with the flash crash in two thousand and ten and with the knight capital debacle just more recently and yet we haven't seen whole lot done in the way of regulations to rein this in or to address some of these problems and concerns yet we see this going on other places germany australia canada they have proposed or enacted

regulations and now we see this from the e.u. so we sat down with the former president to find out why and what costs right lauren lyster in new york city that's coming up next thanks lauren but i'm going to do it now for the news from one of the stories we cover check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r.t. america or follow me on twitter liz wall will be right back here in a half hour. download the official application to choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch our scene any time.

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